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by Ensorceled 2399 days ago
Funding is irrelevant to this question, salary is the important part: if the scientist is selling out their principles for personal gain, it's their take home that will matter to them.

There is a LOT of documentation on scientists making a lot more money in private industry than in government sponsored research.

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Any examples of high profile climate scientists who have moved on to make a lot of money doing research unrelated to global warming?
Not that I've ever seen. That's the weird part of the original accusation, climate deniers are, almost as a rule, people with degrees in unrelated fields (often education ironically). This "climate advisor" of the original article is a Physics Professor specializing in atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy.

Accusing climate researchers of skewing their results for funding makes no sense when they are ALL on the same side of the argument and that you could make hay in the current adminstration by being on the other side.

Occams razor would lead us to the conclusing that the evidence really is super overwhelming ...